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= The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend =

Book Details
The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Thames & Hudson, 1968) by classicist John V. Luce provides a discussion of archeological as well as geological discoveries that the author thinks have the potential demonstrate the existence of Atlantis, a story written by Plato.

Visual Supplementation
Luce uses a significant number of images to support his findings noted in his book. Some are cartographical in nature; being geographical maps, city maps/ plans, and/or rough drawings of land masses. There are also black and white images of excavation sites on the island of Thera, as well as color photography of the cliff side in Thera. This comes alongside vases and other types of ceramic pottery from Thera, inscribed and painted with ancient depictions of "palace" styles and plant styles. There are additional supplements in the form of diagrams used to offer a visual explanation of how ancient walls were built and how they can be cause to collapse. In addition to the prior mentioned varying examples, there are also images of the pottery found in Keos and Phaistos. These vases and pots displayed marine style art that commonly included nautilus shells. 

Author
John Victor Luce was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 21st, 1920. He was published seven other times in his life. With a focus on classical Greek literature and history. His publications included; The Quest for Ulysses 1974,  Homer and the Heroic Age’ 1975, Trinity College Dublin; The First 400 Years 1991, An Introduction to Greek Philosophy 1992, Airodrome and Celebrating Homer’s Landscape. Luce was married in 1948 to his wife, Lyndall Miles. During the couple's marriage, the couple had and parented three children. In addition, Luce was a university lecturer, professor, and dean in his lifetime. Luce passed February 11th, 2011 at the age of ninety-one after having an unnamed illness. In April of 1982, a hall on Trinity College campus was dedicated to Luce and his father A. A. Luce. It was named Luce Hall as a show of gratitude to the Luce families benefaction over the generations.

Reception
In the academic world, it was more or less disregarded, due to its nature and the alleged proof of a topic repeatedly debunked by anthropologists, historians and archeologists.There are very few academic reviews of Luce's book and those that are out there are more disapproving and negative than those in the common sphere and in the less academic side of reading. The reception of The End of Atlantis was generally positive.

Similar Readings
Atlantis specifically:

-Allen, J. M. 1998 Atlantis: The Andes Solution: The Discovery of South America as the Legendary Continent of Atlantis. St. Martin's Press, New York.

-Cayce, E. E., G. C. Schwartzer and D. G. Richards 1997 Mysteries of Atlantis revisited. St. Martin's Paperbacks ed. Edgar Cayce series. St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York.

-Rux, B. 1996 Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx. Frog Ltd.; Distributed by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Calif.

-Garvin, R. M. 1974 The Crystal Skull: The Story of the Mystery, Myth and Ma3gic of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull Discovered in a Lost Mayan City During a Search for Atlantis. Pocket Books, New York

-Ashe, G. 1992 Atlantis: Lost Lands, Ancient Wisdom. Art and imagination. Thames and Hudson, New York, N.Y.

Pseudoscience:

-Aveni, A. F. 1990 The Lines of Nazca: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v. 183. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

-Hancock, G. and R. Bauval 1996 The Message of the Sphinx: a Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. 1st American ed. Crown Publishers, New York.

-Leland, C. G., K. F. Neumann, B. Kennon and s. Hui 1973 Fusang; or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century. Records of Asian history. Curzon Press;

-Jairazbhoy, R. A. 1974 Ancient Egyptians and Chinese in America. His Old World Origins of American civilization; v. 1. Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, N.J.

-Ben-Jochannan, Y. 1988 Africa: Mother of Western Civilization. Students and researchers ed. African-American heritage series.Black Classic Press, Baltimore, Md.